Faith

Thursday and Friday classes were cancelled after an afternoon electrical fire destroyed one classroom and damaged two more at a Seminole elementary school Wednesday.

The fire took place at about 4:45 p.m. in the fourth and fifth grade elementary school campus, said Doug Harriman, superintendent for Seminole Independent School District. The cause of the fire is not yet known.

No students were in the building at the time, Harriman said. One teacher who was present escaped unharmed.

Looks like Fort Bragg soldiers will be able to rock out in a secular way after all.

Rock Beyond Belief, a concert featuring secular speakers like scientist and atheist advocate Richard Dawkins, is set to take place at Fort Bragg base next March. Here's a few words from Rock Beyond Belief's website about the event:

I didn’t know what to expect last Sunday at Oakwood Baptist’s Deaf Church.

I don’t know American Sign Language (or any other kind of sign language) and felt a little like I was planning a trip to Germany without knowing any German.

I had learned four phrases before so I could at least be somewhat polite: “Good morning,” “Happy,” “My name is Irie,” and “Thank you.” I practiced them endlessly before I entered the church. I was still nervous.

They say you can tell a lot about a person when you walk into their room. The piles of clothes, the photographs or lack thereof, the neat stack of unopened books—they all tell a story about the person who owns them.

On Sunday morning at Turning Point Community Church, I wondered whether worship spaces are similarly revelatory.

The sanctuary was sparse when I walked in about ten minutes before the early service. There were no windows, only a few strategically placed lights.